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A waste of time... What was EA Games thinking?!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: November 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of Harry Potter of even an avid gamer, this is not the game to get. This is (and I'm even including the re-release of The Sorcerer's Stone) byfar the worst Harry Potter game ever made. Why? I'll tell you.

First of all, the cut scenes explain very little and the gameplay in the middle explains even less. There is no Yule Ball, no owlery, no exploring the grounds and looking in the various rooms. All you do is go to preset levels, explore them, and then return to the pensieve to choose another. There is really no point because the levels aren't really linked except for the Triwizard Challenges and even those are sloppy.

The underwater challenge? First off, it doesn't explain it well enough. There is no revelation from the golden egg. Before this level, you go to the greenhouses and Hermione says, "Neville said to go to the greenhouses to help you brethe under water for an hour." Is this explained? No! Then at the end of the underwater level, you look up and see two things floating. What are these things? I would have no idea had I not read the book, but I did and so I knew what they were.

The gameplay? Ack! It's so annoying! The camera is always like an arial view of everything. There's really no low shot except when you're running through a SMALL section of the maze. Other than that it's all above you.

Then there's other parts that I won't even get into! All in all... Bad game! I wanted to return it, but they'll only give me $12 for it! That was my birthday money and I am SO not happy right now!

Goblet of Fire is a disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: November 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Harry Potter games just got better and better with each new release - until The Goblet of Fire - when the standard went into rapid reverse. Prisoner of Azkeban was suberb and expectations were high for the Goblet of Fire. What a let down ! The camera angle is limited and irritating in the extreme. There is very little interaction with the other characters and you can't explore the school that we have now become so familar with. The flying experience, speeding ahead of the dragon, is from a bygone era compared to the Hippogriff flying in the Prisoner of Azkeban. I just wish that E.A. games has stuck with the winning formula they had. I had hoped for this to be even better in the new game. More of the same would have been so much better than this step backwards.

Totally different style than first 3...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you liked the first 3 harry potter games because of the exploring, hunting, puzzle solving, etc. this is NOT the game for you. I love the 1st three games and was very disappointed with this one. If you are more into very action packed games that don't require much thinking, this is the game for you. It's mainly a lot of button mashing without much strategy.

Goblet of Fire for XBox

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 17
Date: November 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

With stunning graphics and creative challenges and environments, Goblet of Fire captures attention right from the start. Taking advantage of the multiplayer format, you can play with up to two of your friends. So much more than experiencing the excitement of the game together, EA has made a truly cooperative experience, with the ability to combine your magics for new and more interesting effects! Some excellent AI keeps a single-player from losing the rest of the trio, without having to mind them at every turn (though they do the occasional annoying or harmful thing).

A change in format from the previous games, almost all "levels" (such as Hogwart's grounds, or one of the Triwizard tasks) are accessable from the main screen (a Pensive), to which you return after every sucessful venture. While, in my opinion, this takes away from the Role-Playing aspect of the game, it enhances gameplay in other ways. One can, just as easily, play through the game quickly as spend hours upon hours discovering every little nuance. In this, as in many other similar things, EA did an excellent job of recognizing their teen and young adult (and not-so-young adult) audience, and trying to balance that with the expectation that Harry Potter is for children.

That said, however, there are a few things I dislike about the game. The "camera angle" in many parts of the game is annoying, if not downright frustrating. As I mentioned previously, the "feel" of the game is a lot farther from Role-Playing that what I've come to expect from the Harry Potter series (you can't endlessly play in Hogwart's castle, as you could before). While involving less fuss than before, I disliked the "intuitive" spell-casting (the spell used is determined by what you're casting at), and the less-clearly defined meaning of how to cast a spell "perfectly" (which gains the player rewards). I'd also like to register my complaint that none of our young wizards-and-witches-in-training wore robes; where's the fun in that?

In all honesty, I think it's about time that someone got around to making a Harry Potter Online Role-Playing Game. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of text-only Harry Potter RPG's out there, and an enormous fan-base that would play such a game, a high percentage of which are an untapped market in the world of MMORPG's. And there are so very many neat ways it could be done...

HOLY WOWOWOW

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It's about time. A fun Harry Potter Game. What you have heard is true. This is an action Harry Potter game. I love it. It will keep the attention of anyone who has not been a fan in the past. This is because this is an action game where as the other potter games have been a hunt for and talk to collect-a-thon. Is there talking this time? Yes, but only while you are fihghting. In fact, you do not have to read anything if you do not want to. Excellent audio samples and voice acting. The game is fast, fun and creative. You will casts numerous spells. A big complaint has been that you don't pick your spells, you just always press the same button and perform whatever spell fits the situation. BUt I like it. It would slow down the action if you had to go through some menu, and it would limit the spells if they were limited to the number of buttons.
Bottom line: Great action game. If you remotely like the series, you will finaly love the game.

WASTE OF MONEY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You must be thinking that this game is very cool,you get to play the three tasks and face voldemort. BUT NO! you do not face voldemort in this game. Voldemort just summonds these skulls and you have to kill them.Youu dont really duel him at all.THe three tasks are bad too. The first task you have to run away from the dragon on your broom. THats fun. But the other two are not. YOU just collect gillyweed in the second task. Thats all. The third task is HORRIBLE! You just fight 2 monsters.Thats all. You cant even go around hogwarts. You just keep beating levels. EA games made a piece of JUNK!

Goblet of Fire - Big Disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: November 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I had high hopes for this game after playing/beating Prizoner of Azkaban several times. I was looking forward to finding new clues and searching the castle some more...but this game is a big-time letdown.

The best part about it is that you can play 3 players at a time. You can't switch between the characters; you are forced to choose one at the beginning of a round.

Go out and rent the game - don't buy it!! I'm interested to see how bad they screw up Order of the Phoenix.

The best by far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this game about a year ago and my sister and I (I'm 25 and she's 18) played it non stop until the end, which took a few days to complete. Then we played it again and yet another time, trying to do a little better each time and just having friendly competition with each other. It is so much fun. Now, a year later, I saw it on the xbox rack for under $15.00 and bought it right up and we're at it again. The graphics are great. Really superb. Especially the mini movies in between levels. The characters are true to how they look in the movies. Thankfully, it's their real voices and not some hokey version of it. It doesn't stick to the plot of the book, but whatever. I wish Krum and Cedric were in the game, but alas they are not. And there's no Quidditch. That's kind of a bummer. But overall it's really fun and my second favorite game ever. I would recommend it to anyone.

I rather Prisioner of Askaban

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Hi!!!

Well.. the game is not bad, its just that it seems that Im playing The Lord of the Rigns, its the same leveling format.
I liked The Prisioner of Askaban better cause it gave me more freedom, it was almost like playing "The Leyend of Zelda" in Nintendo Console...

Thants my opinion.

Very Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Once again we have a game with loads of work done on flashy graphics but terrible gameplay - immediately obvious from the beginning.
If you're buying this for PC you will need specs at least 4x the recommendation. I have a PC at least twice as powerful as required but this game plays with horrible delay. Clearly the developers only tested on supercomputers.
Add this to far too many cut scenes and menus, and some tedium about collecting cards and you have a pretty dull game.

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